Chorus Systemes SA has now released the first of its Chorus real-time microkernel, Chorus 2.1, and Chorus/Classix PowerPC VME boards for telephone company and embedded distributed applications (CI No 2,887). Chorus/ClassiX is designed for single system environments that have multiple boards or distributed configurations. Each system is supposed to be capable of running multiple real-time applications and supporting different operating system application programming interfaces. ClassiX r2.1 is an enhanced binary version of the original ClassiX (CI No 2,566) and also runs on iAPX-86, 68000 and Sparc. It is also going up on UltraSparc and the microSparc IIep from the fourth quarter. ClassiX r3 will be up on iAPX-86 in the fourth quarter with PowerPC and Sparc versions following three to six months later. Prices go from $9,400 to $25,000. Run-time licenses are $25 to $163 for 1,000-up depending on functionality included.
